Iraqi hostage threatened with beheading tomorrow

An Iraqi group holding seven foreign truck drivers hostage today threatened to kill one of the men within 24 hours if its demands were not immediately met.

Iraqi hostage threatened with beheading tomorrow

An Iraqi group holding seven foreign truck drivers hostage today threatened to kill one of the men within 24 hours if its demands were not immediately met.

The video, released to Arab TV, showed a masked man pointing a rifle at one of the hostages, who was wearing an orange garment similar to ones worn by previous foreign hostages that were killed.

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